I’m going to see them live tomorrow in my native Israel, but as all Israeli citizens, iTunes don’t sell us music. that’s just like forcing me to illegaly download it.

can’t you also sell it as digital files right here at the subpop store?

I love the Gutter Twins — and followed them from their Milan concert to their Barcelona concert — and I’d love to pay for their new album, but iTunes? I can’t use DRMed music.

Sell it straight from your label as FLAC or 320 kbps mp3s and cut out the middle man. In the meantime, I’m waiting for this to come out in any other medium.

I hate Apple and I particularly hate iTunes. Nothing but Microsoft-style greed hiding behind a veneer of trendiness. Hope they release it through a different channel so I can have some of my cash go towards that memorial fund, otherwise I’ll just be looking for a Torrent of it.

The Gutter Twins iTunes EP does not come with DRM — it’s “iTunes Plus”, which means it’s 256k AAC files without DRM.

So, for whatever other criticisms you have, take DRM off the table.

I live in the Portland, OR area and saw the Gutter Twins twice on this tour, once in Hollywood, CA and once in Seattle at the Sub Pop 20th Anniversary Celebration. Amazing!! But I hate iTunes and by soley using them the benefit for Ms. Schneider is losing a LOT of money. Release it to retail or at least directly here! There is too much of a demand for this group to limit this distribution. Illegal downloading will be the result of this distribution decision, and than everyone loses, especially the Natasha Schneider Memorial Fund.

by Tom W

I tunes I have no use for it just a bunch of adds for no talent gone tomorrow artists I’m looking to buy this ep and there trying to sell me jesica simpson NO THANK YOU

Get it from Sub Pop directly here. 320k, DRM-free.

Who would be stupid enough to pay for an mp3? If you offered them in .wav or .flac, I’d consider it but at a heavily discounted price. I continue to boycott itunes and any other digital retailer that charges you more than a physical release would cost for much, much less sonically and physically.
Put this out on CD or 10" and you’ve got a sale. Continue bastardizing music and selling crap mp3’s to kids that don’t know any better and YOU’VE made me a pirate.
Poor Alain and Natasha. I will seek out a different way to donate.
Don’t you people understand that now the casual listener, who was never really a music fan anyways, is causing the problem? They are the ones not buying cd’s anymore. Why would they? Most of it was single driven garbage that was only produced to sell a product anyways. True music fans will continue to support the artists and the labels that put out quality (ie. good music in a quality {lossless} package) music. Now what you are faced with is a drastically reduced target market since the fairweather listener has gone to pirating or itunes. Don’t you get it? The market for music has been overinflated for generations. Now that technology has bitten the archaic labels in the ass, you’re not going to get those people back. What you are left with is the actual market size of serious listeners. Sadly, the entire industry will have to change by trimming the fat (promos, advances, high paid executives etc.)to stay afloat. Since you all basically ignored the internet, what are you going to do about your impending doom? If I had a farm, I would bet it all on nothing.